Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 49
Roland went to the King and said, "The brethren have taken Duke Richard; lest, therefore, he come to any harm, offer conditions of peace.
Who acts: Roland, brethren · What happens: go, say, take, come, offer, condition · To what, where: brethren, harm, conditions, peace · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Peace Was Made. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Roland, brethren), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 King | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 King | det |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 taken | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 taken | punct |
| 10 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 brethren | det |
| 11 | brethren | brethren | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 taken | aux |
| 13 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 said | ccomp |
| 14 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 taken | obj |
| 15 | Richard | Richard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Duke | flat |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 come | punct |
| 17 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 22 come | mark |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lest | punct |
| 19 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 22 come | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 therefore | punct |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 come | nsubj |
| 22 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | parataxis |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 harm | case |
| 24 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 harm | det |
| 25 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 come | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 offer | punct |
| 27 | offer | offer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 come | conj |
| 28 | conditions | condition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 offer | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 peace | case |
| 30 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 conditions | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Roland | to the King | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Roland not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | take in a quote | present · perfect · passive | the brethren | Duke obj | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme duke=Destination | ||||
| 4 | come in a quote | infinitive | brethren | any harm | therefore property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to harm=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | offer in a quote | infinitive | brethren not said here | conditions of peace | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent condition=Theme | ||||
| 6 | condition in a quote | peace | nom condition «state transitive»: of=patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Project Gutenberg book 75339 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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